The attorney general’s close ties to Texas’ right-wing think tank and its large network of uber-wealthy donors and special interests
Ken Paxton has spent almost the entirety of his decade leading the Office of the Texas Attorney General while also under felony indictment for allegedreal punishment. By no small measure, this has been enabled by Paxton’s masterful use of state resources to court the influence of extremely well-funded conservative legal organizations and networks, at the expense of the public interests he is supposed to represent, and to defend.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is part of of the State Policy Network , a national network of hard-right influence peddlers working on both the state and national level toextreme right-wing agenda items like defunding public education, gutting environmental regulation, and slashing taxes for the nation’s wealthiest people. , and the interests of the network are inextricable from other right-wing organizations, foundations, and billionaires who support it.
Throughout these fights, Ken Paxton has been a good friend of the foundation, routinely attending its events. In 2015, Paxtonat the group’s Energy and Climate Summit, where he spoke extensively about efforts to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed expansion of the federal definition of the “Waters of the United States” rule. That proposal was, at the time,by some environmentalists the biggest win for clean water in a decade.
Paxton’s pattern of wielding state resources to serve the interests of such conservative corporate-funded groups undermines his office’s commitment to all Texans, and undercuts the public interest.
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